memes

Once a person left the house, you couldn't reach them unless you know where they will be and called that place.

To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.

My jpeg stopped downloading cause my roommate picked up the phone.

It is now safe to turn off your computer

This station now concludes its broadcast day.

That's right. At a certain time of night, TV stations would just stop showing things until morning.

You could only watch cartoons after school or on Saturday mornings.

Flying being a really fun and nice experience.

You could walk your family members/friends right to the gate without going through any screening. As a bonus, everyone wore shoes and not their worst clothes too.

My first flight I was by myself before I was even a teenager yet, and the airline had a specific flight attendant watch after me until my grandparents picked me up on the other side. She was awesome and I kept the flight wings the captain gave me for decades. It was not unusually good customer service.

In fact, before MBAs McKinsey'd the world, interactions at most businesses were actually pleasant... Nearly every restaurant or store actually cared about customer satisfaction in the before times. I can't tell you how nice that was having a social contract. It was a genuinely nice thing (*racial and gender provisions apply, offer not valid in all areas) Instead of expanding the umbrella to everyone, we drained the public pools and now it's normal..

Insects. At night there would be plenty of insects under every singe street lamp. The windscreen would be full of yellow goo after driving in summer.

Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.

Of course, you'd copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.

Driving long distances to places you had never been before usually involved books of maps, pre-planning, a navigator, and help from strangers.

I think I see boobs!

Flip the plastic chicklet in your floppy disk so you dont accidentally erase it.

• Receiving junk mail Internet CDs
• Waiting patiently to record a song you liked
• Setting the clock and a timer to record something on your VCR
• The planet Pluto
• Wax lips and candy cigarettes
• Tang
• Translucent electronics
• Cheat Code books
• 1(800) COLLECT & "00 it's magic!"

MTV only had music video

When you call someone it was normal for someone else to answer and you had to be careful because they could be listening to your call.

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn't in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection

My speakers used to be able to let me know I was about to receive a call on my cell phone.

I noticed if the TV was off or on (muted and black screen) without looking at it, but my parents did not.

Needing to memorize the home phone numbers of all my friends

MonsterKing is young enough that he doesn't know you could push the slider and it would work on channel 4.

Sound blaster compatible, irq5, dma1

The magic config to make sound work in DOS games

It's a US thing, where the glory of SCART was unknown thus they had to continue using the antenna input of their TV to connect their consoles to, also, as far as I'm aware only NTSC has fixed frequency assignments. Elsewhere in the world you just programmed the TV to display the console's output on whatever number you wanted, or, if you had a proper input for non-antenna signals, switch the TV to "AV".

"At the tone, it will be 8:45 exactly." Beep

IRQ 5, DMA 1

Disk 13 of 18

Most of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" wouldn't work today because of the Internet and electronic receipts.